BACKWARD GLANCES - Highway patrol gets its priorities right

See what was happening in Redwood Falls 50, 25, and 10 years ago this week.

By Joshua Dixon, Staff Writer

Redwood Falls Gazette

By Joshua Dixon, Staff Writer

Posted Jun. 7, 2012 at 12:01 AM
Updated Jun 7, 2012 at 6:02 AM

By Joshua Dixon, Staff Writer

Posted Jun. 7, 2012 at 12:01 AM
Updated Jun 7, 2012 at 6:02 AM

Redwood Falls, Minn.

1962—50 years ago
• When two Redwood Falls umpires — Sheridan Young and Otto Siewert — were involved in an auto accident on their way to tournament games in St. James, the highway patrol let them officiate the games before filing the accident report.
• To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the first Redwood County Board meeting, the current board members received mimeographed copies of the very first county minutes.
• St. Catherine’s Catholic Church sponsored a ham and turkey buffet supper. Cost: 75 cents per person, with children under six eating free.
• Twenty-one members of the RFHS Class of 1912 gathered at the golf club for their 50th reunion.
• The fifth annual Minnesota Inventors Congress was a success despite all nature threw at it, including a tornado-force wind that blue a seven-ton trailer house off its cement block supports.
1987—25 years ago
• The Lake Redwood Improvement Association learned it would take at least $2 million to dredge out the mud-choked lake.
• Despite having the slowest qualifying score at the meet, the Redwood Falls-Morton girls 3,200 meter relay team — Tami Haas, Kin Schultz, Lori Lussenhop, and Toni Peterson — came in second at the state tournament.
• Seven members of the Israeli wheat trade team stopped by the North Redwood Farmers Elevator and inspected a wheat sample as part of a trip to the United States to meet with grain growers.
• Athletic revenues at all RF-MHS sporting events were $19,073 for the 1986-87 school year, up $2,471 from the year before.
• Carol Baldwin, Dorothy Heaton, and Marilyn Wright of the Humane Society of Redwood County took bunnies and puppies to Wood Dale Nursing Home for residents to enjoy.
2002—10 years ago
• The new Redwood Area Running Club brought in shoe experts from the Twin Cities to discuss such topics as pronation and stride, stability versus cushioning, and general use pattern needs.
• RVHS junior Tom Ellingworth earned a Class ‘A’ state championship in the 300-meter hurtles.
• Art Fry, inventor of the Post-it note, was elected to the Minnesota Inventors Hall of Fame.
• Ninety six member of the RVHS class of 2002 graduated. A few days earlier, 116 members of the class of 2006 graduated from eighth grade.
• The sheriff’s department warned that counterfeit $100 dollar bills were being given to area businesses.
The first clue the bills were counterfeit: all of them had the same serial number, AB606603055.